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Harcourts Network Expansion: Growing in Any Market
Features

Why growth doesn’t have to wait for a stronger property market

Tina Ashton says productivity, costs, technology and rent roll acquisitions can lift a business's performance even when transaction volumes and prices stay flat.

Robert Krnjeta launches Harcourts TWG in Melbourne's west
Franchise News

Robert Krnjeta launches Harcourts TWG in Melbourne’s west

The new group merges Harcourts' Melton and Werribee businesses under one banner, with ambitions to expand to seven offices across the western corridor.

Wednesday lunchtime inspection helps turn 90-day Newstead listing into $915k sale
Agent Stories

Wednesday lunchtime inspection helps turn 90-day Newstead listing into $915k sale

A presentation reset, flexible inspection times and stronger buyer terms helped Dimitri Cassidy secure a $915,000 unconditional contract…

Nerida Conisbee says the housing downturn is starting to shift. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Premium markets turning as investors retreat from affordable suburbs

Ray White's chief economist says buyer attendance is rebounding in Sydney and Melbourne's priciest pockets, even as investor-heavy,…

Economists and markets split on September rate call
Industry News

Economists and markets split on September rate call

Ten of 12 tracked economists expect the RBA to hold, but market pricing implies a 54 per cent…

Anne Flaherty, senior economist at realestate.com.au said rental vacancy rates rose nationally to 1.5% in July. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Vacancies climb to four-year high as renter instability persists

Rental stock improved in July for the first time in years, but new research shows tenant families – especially children – still face high turnover and financial strain in the private market.

Features

The untapped engine of real estate – why property management is no longer the second cousin to sales

How Highland Property is reshaping its rent roll with scale, technology and a standalone approach to property management.

Features

The 18-month lifespan: How to beat PM burnout

Amid rising legislative complexity and tribunal workloads, one principal explains the daily practices that keep her property management team well beyond the industry norm.

Leadership

The professor problem: Fiona Blayney on who is actually teaching your people

In Track 02 of The Edit, Samantha McLean, Chris Hanley and Fiona Blayney examine the gap between managing people and developing them – and why…

Features

The mental conditioning a former bull rider brings to his agency

Leadership

Hope is not a strategy: Chris Hanley on trust, truth and moving stock

Features

Pancho Mehrotra: What Ted Lasso understands about leading people

Real Estate Agent Events

Happy people do more, and they love doing it

Walk into a property management business that's firing and you can feel it before anyone speaks. The energy is up. People are moving. The phone…

Partner Content

The thought we all have, but dare not say out loud

Partner Content

Three numbers that should make every principal uncomfortable, and one that matters

Real Estate Agent Events

Top of the Props 2026 finalists take aim at property industry’s biggest pressure points

Commercial

Regional commercial property hits $6.2 billion as investors rethink the market

Knight Frank's 2026 regional view shows population growth, infrastructure spending and industry diversification are reshaping which regional centres attract serious commercial investment.

Commercial

The lease mistakes costing you repeat commercial clients

Opinion

Darren Krakowiak: Nine ways to win a commercial real estate negotiation without losing the client

Commercial

Tax changes and industrial demand drive mixed quarter for commercial property

The silent commission killer: why agents lose 60 days every year

Pancho Mehrotra unpacks the psychology of prospecting avoidance and how to rewire your habits for maximum output.

Contributor

Freedom is the hardest thing young agents have to manage

Urban Real Estate's Trent Brewer says flexibility without daily discipline is what actually derails new…

Contributor

Dr Fred Grosse in his own words

In 2014 I called a rabbi to help promote an event. He spent 30 minutes…

Managing Editor

What really separates top agents in today’s market

Strip away the noise: why mastering communication, marketing, and negotiation beats every market shortcut

The behaviour you walk past is the behaviour you accept

Hannah Gill argues real estate culture is shaped less by strategy statements and more by…

Contributor

Shorts

AI & Technology
Younger buyers embrace AI for market research, but human advisors retain final trust. Image: Lois

Buyers are asking AI before they ask you

Research shows 38% of Gen Z and 34% of Millennials now use AI platforms as…

Elite Agent launches Saved Articles, free for every reader

Have you ever found a headline interesting at a moment when you didn’t have time…

Peter Schravemade and Antonia Mercorella

Proptech’s real problem isn’t the software, it’s the rollout

The biggest challenges facing Australia and New Zealand’s proptech sector are no longer technical. They…

San Francisco’s AI boom has buyers spending unprecedented amounts of money on homes – much more than sellers are asking for. Image: Lois

San Francisco homes selling US$1m over asking amid AI boom

San Francisco’s housing market has flipped from a city people were leaving to one where…

The proptech push to finally unify your real estate tech stack

The modern real estate office has become a complex web of disconnected systems. What was…